Help make the KDE Platform modular, instead of complicating each single KDE program

Anders Lund anders at alweb.dk
Wed Oct 6 18:34:15 BST 2010


On Onsdag den 6. oktober 2010, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 29, 2010 21:37:33 Anders Lund wrote:
> > Anyways, harddisk space or memory can't be a problem these days. If you
> > want  to use KDE software, using it with features cut of to save harddisk
> > space (or memory) is ridiculous!
> 
> No it's not.
> 
> Well it is if you only take cheap rotational rust ("harddisk") into
> account, but size definitely matters for mobile devices, or those that use
> SSDs.
> 
> Reducing installed size and dependencies is one side-effect of the
> modularization effort, since if you want to only ship parts of the
> platform, inter dependencies have to be reduced, or made optional.

I can appreciate that :)

I'd love to have a KDE driven phone, so i'll go with optional to keep the 
functionality on those old fashioned devices... 

-- 
Venlig hilsen,
Anders




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